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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even if you’re invited. Even if you’re on the guest list. I swear - there’s nothing worse for your raver soul than showing up to an afterparty stone cold sober. Don’t do it.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So my temporary landlord from 14 years ago has just sent me the DVD he borrowed from me 14 years ago.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had a bg noise problem somewhere in my analog rack, despite it being balanced everywhere. Couldn’t find the issue. Dismantled the rack. Located the noise to 2 subgroups in my MPC project. Found both had an instance of JURA Chorus. Went into their UI and switched off the BBD noise sim. Noise gone. 😭

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you’re wondering what factors can doom a game studio, one is that devs leave through natural attrition and can’t be replaced because no one wants to work there. And then the people that are still there have to fill in for the shortfall. And they leave. Snowball effect. See “Codemasters” #gamedev

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I actually ran out of single precision float bits today and had to switch to double. #gamedev

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So you get two Elektron Analog mk1 units for a song, but their firmware is so old that neither of them are class compliant USB devices yet. But also it means the firmware software doesn’t work. Which means the terrifying prospect of doing firmware updates via a SysEx dump over a DIN cable.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why am I doing a firmware OS update over MIDI 5-pin DIN at 21:39?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It hasn’t escaped my attention that MsExcel’s responsiveness to keyboard input in the edit box as at an all time low. You can literally type ”=pi()” and watch as it eats the first parenthesis and then spits it back out. What is happening here? It’s a REACT/js pretending to be native exe isn’t it?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

However, if there was ever a good metaphor for recreational ketamine abuse, a tech bro talking about a horse in your house must be it.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When Sam Altman talks about the amount of context an AI will have on you soon being ”kind of like having a horse in your house” I am compelled to point out the elephant in the room. I’m bothered about him describing the horse as a metaphor, when clearly he’s using a simile.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The problem is I’m supposed to doom scroll, but I don’t care for the endless permutations of the same messages. All the walls are glass, and I absolutely couldn’t care less for any it. Pass me the laudanum.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

25% of my FB feed is infomercials trying to trick me into watching something on a streaming service with the premise that it’s more popular now that it’s on that platform. Another 25% is about older movies that the writer says we’ve not seen, with most of the comments saying “yes I have.”

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why am I awake at 3am? Am I still listening to Dolly Parton and watching Tim Curry clips? Yes. Fucking hell. It’s like we lost Bowie again. One day we’re all going to die. Make some art. From inside of you.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

- Watches latest Star Citizen live stream - Immediately sees ex-colleague front end center in the play test - Huge amount empathy manifests It’s complex. #gamedev

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Stupidly is like an ocean: There’s a lot of it and comes at you in waves.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Basically, if you have classic IBS, don’t eat at McDonalds right now.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love Guy Called Gerald, and especially as he DNGAF about things that don’t really matter. Like hair styles.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You know that pheromones wasps give off when they die to attract more wasps to their location? Does that also happen when a wasp decides to commit suicide by diving into the chili pot you happen be cooking?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I moved out of Leamington Spa in October 2017, and I think… I think today I finally got rid of the mouldy house smell from my belongings. #gamedev

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One thing I have to say about reacquainting myself with the Akai MPC - rediscovering my joy of sampling. Somehow I feel something has been lost by locking it all away in proprietary plug-ins and formats. Sampling in of itself is incredibly musical.

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miriamne | Developing QUO 👁 @miriamne.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'd saved this article to read today over breakfast, and I almost choked... It's pure gold: direct, uncomfortable, and absolutely true "Post-mortems are written by the people who survived the project and read by the people who caused it" www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

productionalchemist.com

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Kieran Foster, who I shared a little code for DAW plug-ins with over the years has died aged 47. I last spoke to him a few weeks before he passed. I had no idea he was sick. His sister has arranged to have his Glitch2 plug-in become freeware. This plug-in is the stuff of legend. illformed.com

illformed.com

Illformed :: Glitch²

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just bare in mind that “Busier than usual” could mean 10 visitors instead of 5.

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Matthew Florianz @matthewflorianz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hi, I'm Matthew Florianz, President and CEO of Florianz’s Wacky Waving Inflatable Ambient Music Emporium and Warehouse! Thanks to a #bandcamp friday event I am now currently overstocked on #ambient music and I am passing the savings on to you! matthewflorianz.bandcamp.com/album/berlin

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Berlin, by Matthew Florianz

16 track album

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Midterms 2026 Vote! @ambientvisions.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Remember that today (8/7/2026) is Bandcamp Friday, the day when fees are waived & the artist gets all of the money from purchases of their music. If you've been waiting to buy a piece of music then today is the day to do it. #ambient #music #bandcampfriday #electronic Support the artists!

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hey All! It’s Bandcamp Friday! This means all proceeds go to the artist until midnight PST. If you haven’t bought a track you want yet, today is a great day to do that. headlesshorsepeople.bandcamp.com/track/paper-...

headlesshorsepeople.bandcamp.com

Paper Champion, by Headless Horse People

track by Headless Horse People

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

On August 7th Bandcamp is waving their fee - artists get all of the income. *Coincidentally* my next EP “Podcasting” is available now on Bandcamp, and goes wide on major platforms on the 14th. Be one of the cool kids and get it on Friday! #music catsonheat.bandcamp.com/album/podcas...

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In Poland rn. Just parked between a Lidl, and Aldi and a Rossmann. In Europe we call this a “German Jackpot”.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On a ferry across the Baltic right now. The disco has started, and they are playing Voyage Voyage by Desireless, which is an - Absolutely - Fucking - Perfect music choice for this context.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On ferry rn. Swedes: What’s the acceptable time limit between brygg kafé refills?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When LLMs enter the equation, almost no one writes the copy, and almost no one reads the copy. We need to have higher standards than this.

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Every photo of Louis Pasteur looks like he's had enough of your bullshit, and I can't blame him.

A photo of scientist Louis Pasteur from the 1800s.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh damn it I’m going to wind up getting Serum 2 aren’t I?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My main issue with learning how to use an Akai MPC again is that the UX all too obvious. My brain has been ruined by terrible PC workflows that stop me from seeing what I need to do. E.g. if you keep pressing the Mixer button it cycles between the pad and channel mixers. I’m duh.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There is a final reckoning in all of this. You can be passionate about the work and the people you work with, but if the trust is gone you only have routine to get you up in the morning… Assuming you still have a job to go to, and need a job. We are in a bad place right now. #gamedev

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not sure if I’m becoming allergic to hearing Serum 2 presets, or to the idea of buying Serum 2 presets. 🫤 Love Steve Duda and the Serum concept btw.

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Now that everyone has apparently stopped caring about the cost or environmental impact of AI datacenters, I’ve started printing stuff out again. Paper docs definitely have a vibe to them don’t they?

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Last day to get your ~$1 donation in. What can I say? It’s a good tune for a good cause and RFSL are a great organization.

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